Technics was the top notch keyboards and organs manufacturer of those time. My older KN800, 1000, 1200 and 3500 still sounds great and are fun to play. I regret they ended to make musical instruments.
At the same time (KN800), there was also GEM with their WS1/2, I can tell you it is extremely surprising for the time. It's not flawless (the KN800 wasn't too), but some sounds were clearly ahead of their time. The sequencing possibilities were very good, as well as the custom style creation. You could make a style with 16 variations, or 2 with 8 variations, or 4 with 4 variations etc. I love Technics a lot too, the keyboard I use the most now is the KN6500, it's just great, sounds very good and comes with hundreds of useful features.
@@mythaimusic39 Although I wanted the KN800, I purchased in sept. 1990 (at age of 19) a WS2 because it was attracting when launched in the summer, innovative design, workstation concept in a home keyboard (2 years before I was obsessed for the Korg M1 but as a beginner, my parents wouldn't bought it to me) and considerably cheaper than the Technics. It was always affected of various software bugs (not upgradable if not replacing the Eprom), some sounds was very good (Grand piano, Rhodes, Human chorus, vibes. sawtooth synth, oboe, lead guitar) many other horrible (a very thin Jazz organ voice I remember); the drum was over compressed, the hi hats sound very thin too. Styles I never liked, impossible to use if not with some specific pieces; but of course styles was programmable in every aspect and sequancer too, but...not step recording of any kind. Not good for a workstation. The KN800 with its little eight track sequencer had step recording feature. The biggest limit of the WS2: Just 5 tracks including the style channels. Not enough for a decent orchestration. Finally I sold it and got a KN800 that I still have! I remeber anyway with nostalgia the WS2 demo songs: Rosanna, Birdland, Little Wing, very well programmed.
@@musk771 Well I haven't bother with the WS2 so much, I've just got it two years ago (it's the expander, not the full keyboard), though I spent a lot of time on the KN800 when I was a kid just like you. I remember I made a lot of sequences with it, and yes the step by step functions were a huge help. As for comparing both of them, there are good points on both side. The KN does have many shitty sounds too, basses are not great, pianos are not good, strings are very so so, organs not good, drums are average. I only found the "solid guitar" sound to be great (as it was on the KN1200 too). Some other sounds quite acceptable too. I agree the WS2 drums are not the best, but at least basses, piano, strings were a lot better. They were even quite realistic for their time, really. As for the limited number of track (that was a problem with the next GEM entry, the WX2), if you're a good musician you can probably deal with it. Number of tracks doesn't help if the notes are not good. Then there was a possibility (commonly used at the time) to make different sounds quickly alternate on the same track. This creates the illusion that there are more tracks. GEM was good at this because the CPU was fast enough to allow sound changes instantly. That's not the case with the KN800, the CPU was a lot slower. DSP Effects were better too on the WS2. Another thing that I never got with the first Technics keyboard, you could not properly set the panning for any tracks. This is a feature that appear on the KN5000 if I don't say anything wrong. I always found this weird. At last, the WS2 are crystal clear sound on the outputs, it's even better than any other GEM keyboards that follow.The audio converters were really of great quality. That's not the case with the KN800, there is a lot of breath on the outputs and the sample rate used was inferior. For some sounds the WS2 was really ahead of it's time. Anyway I love both of them and I enjoy to play with them if I have time.
Thank you so much! Well done, very good demo👌 I tried this Keyboard early 2000, it was unbelievable with big color screen. Teen years after YAMAHA start with Tyros and twenty years Genos with pictures on the screen. I miss Technics, toooo bad they don't make no more keyboards and desperate from the market !! Even Kn800-1000 in 90th were very good compared to another brands back then!
I have very fond memories of the KN1000 i had, I would love to own another one Kn again, In fact i am toying with the idea for my keyboard playing reboot.
Hello All = just to say = if your a lover of 50 ‘s / 60 ‘s 70 s ON even with all New technology out today = nothing will Beat this Board , it’s what it says = Technics we’re great ! , that’s why “ Yamaha “ PAID them Out ! & copied everything when they finished & went back to PANASONIC! S Ltd etc . & this model. Was BEST of All 👍✅🤪= Cheers
Hello, thank you very much for this video I really enjoyed it. I am in the process of purchasing either a KN7000 or a KN6500 and I can't make up my mind, ideally I'd like to know how similar they both are mainly in terms of the styles. Are you planning to show the rest of the styles of this keyboard because I would really like to see how the Dance and Latin styles sound especially. All the best to you.
Hello Danny, I don't own a KN7000 but I took a look at the manual some time ago. Both keyboards are very similar. There were never a huge difference between a new flagship and the previous one with all Technics keyboards. The KN7000 internal hardware and OS is quite identical to the KN6500, except you can plug a USB memory card instead of floppy disks. As for the styles and sounds, there are some new ones, and probably better sounding, but not nothing that would have justify an upgrade 20 years ago (my opinion). Now it's a matter of at how much you can find a used one. A second hand KN7000 is most of the time more expensive than the KN6500. If you can get a bargain on a good condition KN6500, I'd say go for this one. As for myself, if I had to chose between the two, I'd go for the KN6500 as I don't like the KN7000 design. I'm writing a memo to make a new video with the remaining styles. It's very time consuming and I use my spare time to improve my piano skills -_-
Hello (again), Finally I made the second video today, it includes the Dance styles. I'll do the other ones with the Latin another time. ua-cam.com/video/ZSIONj75i24/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching, and yes if you can get it at a good price, go for it. Not the best arranger of the same era, but definitely a lot of fun with ton of features to make it sound as you wish. I'll do the second part in the coming days, it's something I've got in my mind since several weeks. I think about doing a video about its numerous features too. Have a good day -_-
Amazing. I recall being in a music store many years ago - it must have been the mid to late 80s, possibly the early 90s where I'm pretty sure I played a Technics keyboard where one of the styles was named either "Keith and Mick" or something really close. Anyone have some info if this could be true? I've been searching for quite a while and have been coming up dry...
I don't remember any style with such a name, but from the late 80's/ early 90's I've just got the KN800 and KN1200 ... There is also the possibility that it was a custom style ...
I am awaiting my KN6500 any day now... Nice keyboard. Does it have all the synthesizer capabilities of the KN5000? KN5000 really has a fully featured synthesizer. I am hoping that KN6500 doesn't lose that capability.
It has every synthesizer capabilities of the KN5000 and it is also very similar on many other aspects. It is really an upgrade from the 5000 and previous Technics KN users should instantly be able to use it. If you are into arranger keyboards with synthesizer facilities, I can only recommand the Gem WK8 or Genesys. Both of them have the exact capabilities of the Gem Equinox which is a pure synth. The only difference is that the arrangers lack a single DSP effect unit. To my knowledge, no other arrangers come with such extensive sound possibilities. They can also import new wav samples while no KN can do that. Anyway, you will absolutely enjoy your new KN6500, it is an absolute little gem from the late 90's/early 2000's and is a real complete workstation.
@@mythaimusic39 I am not really familiar with the GEM or Ketron lines. But it looks like Italians have been making some major arranger keyboards, including the Roland E-series and Korg PA1X. However, after reading the manual online, I think my eyes will be now on Yamaha 9000 Pro. It has full synthesizer capabilities, sampling, and two expansion slots for Yamaha PLG boards, so you have access to something like the VL virtual acoustic engine. I am actually surprised that the Tyros doesn't have that much of synthesis editing capabilities. I mean, it has enough, the ADR envelope (albeit only for amplifier), and it has LFO's and filter with resonance. So that's quite good actually. Anyway, I am enjoying your video and you made a very good and detailed description in the video, which contains a lot of helpful information. Much appreciated indeed.
@@dvamateur Ah yes the 9000 is certainly the yammy to have if you love keyboards from this time. Don't expect very extended sampling possilities but it does the job. It was really an impressive leap after the 8000. I wish I can make more detailed videos but it's so much time consuming :)
Technics uses a different fingering method than Yamaha if I can remember well. Teknik menggunakan metode fingering yang berbeda dari Yamaha jika saya dapat mengingat dengan baik
Bonjour à vous tous, je viens d'acheter un clavier tecnics KN 5000 je ne sais pas comment mettre mon clavier pilote en midi du tecnics ou clavier maître ou midi pilote qui pourrait m'aider
Forcément il faut mettre le "in" dans le "out" au niveau du câble MIDI, et ensuite il faut sélectionner un channel (un canal) midi. Je n'ai pas le KN5000 mais ca doit être identique que pour le 6500. Il faut aller dans le menu MIDI du clavier et dans le sous menu "Part Setting" et là vous pouvez affecter le canal MIDI pour la partie désirée et correspondante au clavier maître. C'est certainement un peu confus comme explication mais c'est bien dans le sous menu "Part Setting" que tout se joue.
Technics was the top notch keyboards and organs manufacturer of those time. My older KN800, 1000, 1200 and 3500 still sounds great and are fun to play. I regret they ended to make musical instruments.
At the same time (KN800), there was also GEM with their WS1/2, I can tell you it is extremely surprising for the time. It's not flawless (the KN800 wasn't too), but some sounds were clearly ahead of their time. The sequencing possibilities were very good, as well as the custom style creation. You could make a style with 16 variations, or 2 with 8 variations, or 4 with 4 variations etc.
I love Technics a lot too, the keyboard I use the most now is the KN6500, it's just great, sounds very good and comes with hundreds of useful features.
@@mythaimusic39 Although I wanted the KN800, I purchased in sept. 1990 (at age of 19) a WS2 because it was attracting when launched in the summer, innovative design, workstation concept in a home keyboard (2 years before I was obsessed for the Korg M1 but as a beginner, my parents wouldn't bought it to me) and considerably cheaper than the Technics. It was always affected of various software bugs (not upgradable if not replacing the Eprom), some sounds was very good (Grand piano, Rhodes, Human chorus, vibes. sawtooth synth, oboe, lead guitar) many other horrible (a very thin Jazz organ voice I remember); the drum was over compressed, the hi hats sound very thin too. Styles I never liked, impossible to use if not with some specific pieces; but of course styles was programmable in every aspect and sequancer too, but...not step recording of any kind. Not good for a workstation. The KN800 with its little eight track sequencer had step recording feature. The biggest limit of the WS2: Just 5 tracks including the style channels. Not enough for a decent orchestration. Finally I sold it and got a KN800 that I still have! I remeber anyway with nostalgia the WS2 demo songs: Rosanna, Birdland, Little Wing, very well programmed.
@@musk771 Well I haven't bother with the WS2 so much, I've just got it two years ago (it's the expander, not the full keyboard), though I spent a lot of time on the KN800 when I was a kid just like you. I remember I made a lot of sequences with it, and yes the step by step functions were a huge help.
As for comparing both of them, there are good points on both side. The KN does have many shitty sounds too, basses are not great, pianos are not good, strings are very so so, organs not good, drums are average. I only found the "solid guitar" sound to be great (as it was on the KN1200 too). Some other sounds quite acceptable too.
I agree the WS2 drums are not the best, but at least basses, piano, strings were a lot better. They were even quite realistic for their time, really.
As for the limited number of track (that was a problem with the next GEM entry, the WX2), if you're a good musician you can probably deal with it. Number of tracks doesn't help if the notes are not good.
Then there was a possibility (commonly used at the time) to make different sounds quickly alternate on the same track. This creates the illusion that there are more tracks. GEM was good at this because the CPU was fast enough to allow sound changes instantly. That's not the case with the KN800, the CPU was a lot slower.
DSP Effects were better too on the WS2.
Another thing that I never got with the first Technics keyboard, you could not properly set the panning for any tracks. This is a feature that appear on the KN5000 if I don't say anything wrong. I always found this weird.
At last, the WS2 are crystal clear sound on the outputs, it's even better than any other GEM keyboards that follow.The audio converters were really of great quality. That's not the case with the KN800, there is a lot of breath on the outputs and the sample rate used was inferior. For some sounds the WS2 was really ahead of it's time.
Anyway I love both of them and I enjoy to play with them if I have time.
Thank you so much!
Well done, very good demo👌
I tried this Keyboard early 2000, it was unbelievable with big color screen. Teen years after YAMAHA start with Tyros and twenty years Genos with pictures on the screen.
I miss Technics, toooo bad they don't make no more keyboards and desperate from the market !!
Even Kn800-1000 in 90th were very good compared to another brands back then!
Glad that you loved the video. Yes Technics absolutely made wonderful keyboards and that's so bad they're not in the market anymore :(
What a fascinating sound. It's so smooth and the sounds fit together perfectly.
I have very fond memories of the KN1000 i had, I would love to own another one Kn again, In fact i am toying with the idea for my keyboard playing reboot.
Hello All = just to say = if your a lover of 50 ‘s / 60 ‘s 70 s ON even with all New technology out today = nothing will Beat this Board , it’s what it says = Technics we’re great ! , that’s why “ Yamaha “ PAID them Out ! & copied everything when they finished & went back to PANASONIC! S Ltd etc . & this model. Was BEST of All 👍✅🤪= Cheers
Hello, thank you very much for this video I really enjoyed it. I am in the process of purchasing either a KN7000 or a KN6500 and I can't make up my mind, ideally I'd like to know how similar they both are mainly in terms of the styles. Are you planning to show the rest of the styles of this keyboard because I would really like to see how the Dance and Latin styles sound especially. All the best to you.
Hello Danny, I don't own a KN7000 but I took a look at the manual some time ago. Both keyboards are very similar. There were never a huge difference between a new flagship and the previous one with all Technics keyboards. The KN7000 internal hardware and OS is quite identical to the KN6500, except you can plug a USB memory card instead of floppy disks. As for the styles and sounds, there are some new ones, and probably better sounding, but not nothing that would have justify an upgrade 20 years ago (my opinion). Now it's a matter of at how much you can find a used one. A second hand KN7000 is most of the time more expensive than the KN6500. If you can get a bargain on a good condition KN6500, I'd say go for this one. As for myself, if I had to chose between the two, I'd go for the KN6500 as I don't like the KN7000 design.
I'm writing a memo to make a new video with the remaining styles. It's very time consuming and I use my spare time to improve my piano skills -_-
Hello (again), Finally I made the second video today, it includes the Dance styles. I'll do the other ones with the Latin another time. ua-cam.com/video/ZSIONj75i24/v-deo.html
Where is the part2? Im excited and I Will buy this one
Thanks for watching, and yes if you can get it at a good price, go for it. Not the best arranger of the same era, but definitely a lot of fun with ton of features to make it sound as you wish. I'll do the second part in the coming days, it's something I've got in my mind since several weeks. I think about doing a video about its numerous features too. Have a good day -_-
Hi, if you haven't got your Technics yet, I made the second part of the video yesterday. You can check it here ua-cam.com/video/ZSIONj75i24/v-deo.html
0:28 A01~10 8/16 Beat Style
9:50 B01~20 Rock & Pop Style
26:03 C01~20 Ballad Style
41:00 D01~16 Soul & Funk Style
I like that keyboard
Amazing. I recall being in a music store many years ago - it must have been the mid to late 80s, possibly the early 90s where I'm pretty sure I played a Technics keyboard where one of the styles was named either "Keith and Mick" or something really close. Anyone have some info if this could be true? I've been searching for quite a while and have been coming up dry...
I don't remember any style with such a name, but from the late 80's/ early 90's I've just got the KN800 and KN1200 ... There is also the possibility that it was a custom style ...
There was a style on the Korg I5S called Mick and Keith could it have been that?
I am awaiting my KN6500 any day now... Nice keyboard. Does it have all the synthesizer capabilities of the KN5000? KN5000 really has a fully featured synthesizer. I am hoping that KN6500 doesn't lose that capability.
It has every synthesizer capabilities of the KN5000 and it is also very similar on many other aspects. It is really an upgrade from the 5000 and previous Technics KN users should instantly be able to use it. If you are into arranger keyboards with synthesizer facilities, I can only recommand the Gem WK8 or Genesys. Both of them have the exact capabilities of the Gem Equinox which is a pure synth. The only difference is that the arrangers lack a single DSP effect unit. To my knowledge, no other arrangers come with such extensive sound possibilities. They can also import new wav samples while no KN can do that. Anyway, you will absolutely enjoy your new KN6500, it is an absolute little gem from the late 90's/early 2000's and is a real complete workstation.
@@mythaimusic39 I am not really familiar with the GEM or Ketron lines. But it looks like Italians have been making some major arranger keyboards, including the Roland E-series and Korg PA1X. However, after reading the manual online, I think my eyes will be now on Yamaha 9000 Pro. It has full synthesizer capabilities, sampling, and two expansion slots for Yamaha PLG boards, so you have access to something like the VL virtual acoustic engine. I am actually surprised that the Tyros doesn't have that much of synthesis editing capabilities. I mean, it has enough, the ADR envelope (albeit only for amplifier), and it has LFO's and filter with resonance. So that's quite good actually. Anyway, I am enjoying your video and you made a very good and detailed description in the video, which contains a lot of helpful information. Much appreciated indeed.
@@dvamateur Ah yes the 9000 is certainly the yammy to have if you love keyboards from this time. Don't expect very extended sampling possilities but it does the job. It was really an impressive leap after the 8000. I wish I can make more detailed videos but it's so much time consuming :)
Bg mw tanya cara kasih finger On bas di KN tp 2 jari kyak di Yamaha
Technics uses a different fingering method than Yamaha if I can remember well. Teknik menggunakan metode fingering yang berbeda dari Yamaha jika saya dapat mengingat dengan baik
Tidak ada fitur 2 Jari alias AI Fingered dalam keyboard KN Series ini. Sama seperti keyboard Yamaha menggunakan Fingered On Bass.
@@YenskiNapitupulu ok mkch🙏
On this keyboard can makes the user styles ?
Bonjour à vous tous, je viens d'acheter un clavier tecnics KN 5000 je ne sais pas comment mettre mon clavier pilote en midi du tecnics ou clavier maître ou midi pilote qui pourrait m'aider
Merci à vous tous caty
Forcément il faut mettre le "in" dans le "out" au niveau du câble MIDI, et ensuite il faut sélectionner un channel (un canal) midi. Je n'ai pas le KN5000 mais ca doit être identique que pour le 6500. Il faut aller dans le menu MIDI du clavier et dans le sous menu "Part Setting" et là vous pouvez affecter le canal MIDI pour la partie désirée et correspondante au clavier maître.
C'est certainement un peu confus comme explication mais c'est bien dans le sous menu "Part Setting" que tout se joue.
Apakah keyboardnya dijual
Yes this is nice keyboard
Olá como faço pra adquirir um?
Olá, você só pode obter um de segunda mão. É fácil de encontrar, ou não, dependendo de onde você mora. Boa sorte.
Keyboard KN6500 for sale?
If I was not selling one of my keyboards, this would be this one :) I hope you can find one at a good price, it's a wonderful keyboard.
@@mythaimusic39
if sold, how much?
Wow!👍♥️👍Great!👍Big like!
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